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Grosses for all the Broadway shows for the week ending 2/17/2008

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On Friday February 29 at 8PM, for one night only at UCLA's Royce Hall, Tony Award-winners Audra McDonald and Sara Ramirez, and Loretta Devine, will headline Good Medicine - a musical event with the casts of television series 'Grey's Anatomy' and 'Private Practice.'

Carnage, A Comedy, The Actors' Gang's raucous satire about televangelism and the state of religion in America, co-written by Adam Simon and Tim Robbins, has extended at The Gang's Ivy Substation home in Culver City. Performances continue Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8PM and Sundays at 3PM through March 29.

The Illinois Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission announced that Ravinia Festival has been awarded a $50,000 grant in support of the festival's newly commissioned work A Good Man, by dancer, choreographer and Tony Award winner Bill T. Jones.

The release of 'I Stand,' the long-awaited and highly anticipated Warner Bros. Records debut of Idina Menzel, took place back on January 29th and hit the Billboard charts at #58, the star's first solo album to do so.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company continues its 2008 Traffic Series in May with three unique events: Tatsu Aoki's Miyumi Project: East Meets the Rest (May 9); Sones de México Ensemble: de coraSON 'From the Heart' (May 16); and the Kuumba Lynx Ensemble (May 22) in the Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre, 1650 N. Halsted Street.

The Carlyle Hotel is pleased to present Barbara Cook in a limited six-week engagement in 'Love Is Good For Anything That Ails You' from March 4 through April 12.

New York City Opera's acclaimed series VOX 2008: Showcasing American Composers returns for its ninth season on May 10 and 11, presented at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at NYU

New Rep On Tour will close its eighth season with a three-player adaptation of Edmund Rostand's Masterpiece, Cyrano. Over five weeks, beginning March 4, 2008, the Tour will travel to over 20 Boston area schools and reach over 7,000 students.

As previously rumored, the line-up of celebrities for Season 6 of 'Dancing with the Stars' will include Tony Award-winner Marissa Jaret Winokur (Hairspray) and Priscilla Presley.

Stephen Kocis and Carl D. White are proud to announce that they will present the Off-Broadway Premiere of BASH'd!, the acclaimed Gay Rap Opera this summer at a theater to be announced. They will be hosting an invitation-only presentation for Group Sales leaders and other industry professionals at New World Stages on Tuesday, March 18.

Practical Cats Theatre, in association with 78th Street Theatre Lab, presents the world premiere of Hannah and the Hollow Challah - a new comedy for family audiences about a young girl's wild escapades with human and 'doughy' characters in the magical world of Bread Land - begins its limited four-week engagement on March 15, prior to its official press opening March 16, at the 78th Street Theatre Lab (236 West 78th Street) in Manhattan. Elizabeth Margid directs.

'Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words,' the acclaimed, long-running L.A-based comedy sensation returned to New York City at The Triad Theater. In appearance on Monday, February 18 were Broadway and screen-stars Donna Murphy, Matthew Broderick, Claudia Shear, Rachel Dratch Kristen Johnston, Eugene Pack, Dayle Reyfel and Seth Rudetsky.

'Til Sunday, a new play written by and starring Nairoby Otero and directed by Michelle Tattenbaum, will open at the Dorothy Strelsin Theatre at the Abingdon Theatre Arts Complex (312 West 36th Street, between 8th & 9th Avenues) on Friday, February 22. There will be a preview performance on February 21.

Shortened Attention Span is proud to announce the world premiere of Rosemarie Hester's new one-act play, You Can't Leave That There!, as part of the The Shortened Attention Span Baseball Festival at the Players Loft in The Players Theatre.

On February 29, Backstage Bistro Award Winner Joe Iconis will perform on the Laurie Beechman stage as part of the SPOTLIGHT Cabaret.

Following a sold-out run this past fall at Feinstein's, Rendezvous…An Evening with Piaf, Brel, Aznavour & Friends will re-open at The Reprise Room at Dillon's on Thursday, March 6 at 7:30PM, for an extended run. Additional performances will be Thursdays, March 13 & 27 at 7:30PM.

Composer, arranger, vocalist and jazz pianist Billy Stritch celebrated the release of his acclaimed new record, 'Billy Stritch Sings Mel Tormé' on Monday, February 18, 2008 at 7PM at Birdland, as part of the long-running, critically-heralded and popular concert series Broadway at Birdland.

Almost Maine, the delightful, new comedy enjoying its Los Angeles premiere at the Colony Theatre in Burbank, is the best advertisement for our country's northern most state that any chamber of commerce could hope for...

REVIEW: The Baltimore Shakespeare Festival opens its teen performance of Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors.